Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka on Tuesday described the decade-long abduction of schoolgirls from Chibok town in Borno State, Nigeria, as an example of modern-day slavery. Soyinka addressed the United ...
In “Captives and Companions,” Justin Marozzi traces the stories of the eunuchs, harem women and forced laborers who ...
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Apongo was a rebel leader in Jamaica – a diary entry sheds light on his west African origins
The search for Apongo is a small part of historians’ ongoing work to recreate the lives of Africans taken in the ...
“The transatlantic slave trade was one of history’s most appalling manifestations of human barbarity. We must never forget the crimes and impacts in Africa and beyond. We honour them by standing up ...
Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. Papillion Joe Biden, making the first trip by an American president to Angola, ...
Once a site of forced baptisms and brutal control, the museum near Luanda now exposes the trade’s human toll and opens ...
Editor’s note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black-history series, please take a moment to learn about historian Joel A. Rogers, author of the 1934 book 100 Amazing Facts ...
A new Smithsonian book reckons with the enduring legacies of slavery and capitalism Jennifer L. Morgan Blueprint, Terry Boddie, 2017. This work juxtaposes an image of a housing development in Harlem, ...
“I have learned that while history can be hidden, it cannot and should not be erased,” said President Joe Biden delivers a speech at Angola’s National Museum of Slavery. Sipa USA Papillion Joe Biden, ...
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